Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
$\color{#047C91}{\text{Research}}$: Exploring the geometries of life:
$\color{#047C91}{\text{Office Hours}}$: Mondays 5 - 6 PM, ECE TA Offices in Trailer 699, Room 103.
Office hours in ECE TA Offices in Trailer 699, Room 103:
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Classes}}$: in CHEM 1171, MW 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (slides posted on Slack)
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Labs}}$: in ESB 1003
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Quick Survey to get to know you:}}$
There is no midterm exam.
These are taken into account while grading your assignments.
The textbooks are considered supplementary to classes:
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Remarks}}$:
We will use:
You should download Anaconda which will install everything you need to run Python 3.7+ and Jupyter notebooks:
The TAs will demo the setup process in the first lab session.
Course in “Assignments”: "Intermediate Python":
Deadline: Nov 2nd. Use this link to join with your @ucsb.edu address.
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Advantages}}$:
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) focuses on design, development and production of:
that can acquire, process, analyze and transmit information.
Many good reasons to study ECE:
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
$\color{#003660}{\text{Make quality medical imaging universally accessible}}$
An image can be represented as a matrix or a vector.
We will learn how to perform computations on vectors and matrices, and thus on images.
In this neural network (NN):
$\color{#003660}{\text{We will learn how to compute this and use it in ECE applications.}}$
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
Signal processing is an ECE subfield that focuses on:
Signal processing can be used to:
Silicon Valley (TV show) synopsis:
$\color{#003660}{\text{Why is data compression so important?}}$
Compression helps with costs and productivity.
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We find the "best decomposition": $A \simeq \alpha_1 u_1.v_1^T + \alpha_2 u_2.v2^T$ where:
$\color{#003660}{\text{We will learn how to compute this, and use it for applications.}}$
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering
$\color{#EF5645}{\text{Remarks}}$:
Real-World Applications Electrical and Computer Engineering